Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible.

This book engages with contemporary cutting-edge research in international political sociology (IPS). It brings together leading academics from international relations, sociology, social theory, criminology, anthropology, law and the wider social sciences to rethink through the lens of international political sociology standard approaches to international relations. The authors and editors come from diverse intellectual and geographical backgrounds to provide unprecedented coverage of the key concepts and topics of research in IPS.

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book explores how data has acquired such an important capacity and examines how critical interventions in its uses in both theory and practice are possible.